{"id":2489,"date":"2009-07-08T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2009-07-08T11:32:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T15:32:16","slug":"pelosi-v-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/pelosi-v-cia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi v. CIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Wall Street Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The last time the CIA and Nancy Pelosi were in the news together, the House Speaker was accusing the agency of lying about its briefings to Congress on the interrogation of al Qaeda detainees. This week, the Speaker’s fellow Democrats are set to block public disclosure of what Ms. Pelosi was really told and when.<\/p>\n

Democrats recently marked up the 2010 intelligence bill, and Republican Pete Hoekstra offered an amendment in committee to require the CIA to make public an unclassified version of its records on Congressional briefings. It also would have required the CIA to disclose the information gleaned from those interrogations.<\/p>\n

Democrats have spent years demanding a “truth commission” into interrogations, so you’d think such public disclosure would be welcome. Ah, that was when a different guy was in the White House and before Mrs. Pelosi had made her own veracity an issue. Suddenly, she’s all for secrecy. And sure enough, Intelligence Committee Democrats lined up to protect their leader and defeated the Hoekstra amendment on a party line vote. This follows Democratic rejection of a resolution by Utah Republican Rob Bishop to initiate a bipartisan investigation of Mrs. Pelosi’s accusation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d laugh but this isn’t funny. Democrats aren’t interested in the truth or giving we the people access to the facts on interrogations, they’re interested solely in creating controversy for political gain. The longer\u00a0 they can continue to tar and feather the Bush Administration over interrogations, the economy and anything else they can think of… the longer they can avoid having to accept responsibility for their own actions or inaction’s over the last eight years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Wall Street Journal: The last time the CIA and Nancy Pelosi were in the news together, the House Speaker was accusing the agency of lying about its briefings to Congress on the interrogation of al Qaeda detainees. This week, the Speaker’s fellow Democrats are set to block public disclosure of what Ms. Pelosi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[51,628,720,630,131,754,755],"class_list":{"0":"post-2489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"tag-bush-administration","8":"tag-cia","9":"tag-house-of-representatives","10":"tag-interrogations","11":"tag-nancy-pelosi","12":"tag-pete-hoekstra","13":"tag-rob-bishop","14":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-E9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2142,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/08\/cia-says-pelosi-was-briefed-on-use-of-enhanced-interrogations\/","url_meta":{"origin":2489,"position":0},"title":"CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of ‘Enhanced Interrogations’","author":"Jeff","date":"May 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Washington Post and ABC News are reporting that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed on Enhanced Interrogations Techniques and their use on on Abu Zubaydah. 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It's mainly about Nancy Pelosi but listen to Congressman John Larson's (D-CT) remarks at the beginning of the clip: Am I crazy or did he just call the CIA liars? 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